COUNTERARGUMENT: The Trump supporters who do know Biden supporters have steadfastly refused to listen to a word any of us have said because they have all been brainwashed into beliving that mainstream media is a tool of the Deep State & never to be trusted washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
The implicit solution of the article is that Trumpism can be cured by exposing the participants to friendly voices from the other side, but the very structure of the cult is designed to reflexively reject such voices as unwitting participants of a huge anti-Trump conspiracy
LESSONS LEARNED
- When you eliminate shame from the equation, Republicans will happily lie again & again to get what they want
- When truth & power are at cross-purposes, the GOP will always choose power
- Sunlight is not always the best disinfectant; it is merely the easiest
- When you eliminate shame from the equation, Republicans will happily lie again & again to get what they want
- When truth & power are at cross-purposes, the GOP will always choose power
- Sunlight is not always the best disinfectant; it is merely the easiest
- When you can prove that a President has told 20,000 lies in the space of four years and the resounding response from his Party is “WE DON’T CARE”, then you are no longer dealing with a persuadable entity. They are not engaging in “debate”. This is a job for a deprogrammer.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
